Human Nature Quotes - Page 16

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.

What we call human nature, is actually human habit.

Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature.

Man's existence precedes his essence

I'm an advocate of human nature.

There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

The moment you see someone attractive, you can't help but make note of it. It's human nature.

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".

Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human nature.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.